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Benjamin Wai (wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
: 
: 	Can anyone please explain more about the function of EMM386.EXE?
: 	I was not clever enough to understand fully how it functions from 
: 	the manual"s". The thing I know is that it can push half of my 
: 	drivers up to the high memory block, and free up at least 100K of 
: 	my base memory space.
: 	The main problem came from the parameters, ie, what is and when 
: 	to use noems, ram, etc. 
: 	Also, whenever the EMM386.exe is loaded, pressing CTRL, ALT plus
: 	a random key would simply hang the machine -- even with CTRL, ALT+DEL,
: 	ie, it would not warm boot the computer. Does this meant to happen?
: 
: 	Many thanks in advance for any help.
: 
: 
: 	 - Benjamin Wai  < wai@cn.ecn.purdue.edu > < wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu >
>
> Ben,
>    The EMM386 driver is Microsofts Expanded Memory Manager.  It really
> does 2 things.  1- it enables the Upper Memory Blocks (UMB).  This is 
> the "spare" memory that is in the 384k above 640k and below 1meg limit.
> With EMM386 loaded with the NOEMS parameter - this enables the UMB's but
> does not enable the Expanded memory (does not convert any Extended memory
> to expanded).  2- You can use EMM386 to enable some Expanded Memory by using
> the RAM option.  If you use the RAM option, you get both UMB and Expanded
> memory.  Your machine should not lock up just because you have the EMM driver
> loaded.  Try using the NOEMS option first.  If you're going to use the RAM
> option, make sure that you can allocate a Page Frame successfully.  It will
> tell you, when it loads, when it can't.
> Hope I helped.
> Jeff